On 22 Oct 2009, at 21:19, Martin Phillips wrote: > [email protected] wrote: >> ... one Keith Jones, who built some steam-powered narrowboats in the >> 1980s/1990s? One called Firefly and one called Benson, I believe. >> Benson is listed on the steam boat association's website. >> > > Firefly was up for sale by one of the yards around Calcutt in around > 1996, we were interested in buying her at the time. The steam plant > had > been taken out and replaced with an SR4 (I think) - anyway, a big > air-cooled Lister. Still very much a hire boat in internal fit-out > then, > but she was nicely shaped with a big prow. She was up for sale with > WFB > for quite a long time afterwards.
Hello Martin Is Boden back at base yet ? How was the trip ? Beeky
